Sunday, October 16, 2016

TGP Awards: Yankees Rookie of the Year for 2016

Ladies and gentleman we are back with the TGP Awards and I’m
your host, Daniel Burch. We have a great show lined up for you today and have
already given out a big award in the MVP Award. Yeah that might be a little bit
backwards to give out a big award first but we like to grab your attention
early and often, sue me. We continue this award show with the TGP Award for the
Yankees Rookie of the Year Award in 2016. You know the nominees, now onto the
winner.

Gary Sanchez was the Yankees second most valuable position
player in 2016 according to Baseball Reference and their WAR stat despite only
playing in a third of the team’s games. Sanchez, at 23-years old mind you,
finished the season with a .299/.376/.657 triple slash with 20 home runs and 42
RBI in just 229 plate appearances. Sanchez could win the MLB Rookie of the Year
Award as well, that’s how good he was for the Yankees in a short spurt this
season.

The Yankees went 31-25 with Sanchez in the lineup which
roughly breaks out to a 91 win season if they kept up that pace all season long
instead of the 84 wins the team was able to muster with and without him this
season. I gave him considerable consideration for that reason alone for the
team’s MVP Award but I couldn’t give it to him after just 56 games. I feel
perfectly comfortable giving him the Rookie of the Year Award though and I did
just that.